Certain Facebook users logged in to the site Tuesday to see this option. The issue came with the fact that it was available for labeling just about anything that was posted on the website as “hate speech.”

“This was an internal test we were working on to understand different types of speech, including speech we thought would not be hate,” a spokesperson for Facebook told VICE News in an email. “A bug caused it to launch publicly. It’s been disabled.”

The decision to give the option to report something as hate speech was prompted by Facebook’s initiative to identify and remove any kind of derogatory messages or hate groups from its platform.

“We define hate speech as a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, and serious disability or disease,” Facebook's guide states. “We also provide some protections for immigration status. We define 'attack' as violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or segregation.”